We are told that as women and mothers, we are worthy because we make sacrifices for our kids and family. We grow up on this message – good girls give, and mothers are wonderful because they would sacrifice themselves for their children. Have you seen this quote: The inference is, that a mother will go without – let everyone else …

Hopefully this episode will put you to sleep. Not permanently and not immediately but certainly more often! As part of the new look podcast, I want to address some of the reasons and issues we don’t thrive as working women juggling family, and a big part of that is related to our health and lifestyle. Some of it is obvious, …

Very few, if any, women ever say they have a work-life balance. Not a good one, anyway. If you think of the idea of balance as if you’re on a see-saw, it’s not unusual to feel the ride you’re on swings from high to low and back again like a theme park rollercoaster, with your Supermum cape flapping wildly around …

This episode is all about having the courage to choose yourself and your own life. It starts out about business and Instagram but the story of Liss Amyah is ahhh-mazing and she is the definition of true courage, grace and strength. I met Liss at Problogger conference via a mutual friend and over drinks Liss shared her story and I …

Soooooo, what is going onnnnn? If you’ve followed me or the podcast for a while, you will have heard me mention or speak about pivoting many times – that I’ve done more pivots than a ballerina. And here is another one. SHE is gone, and in her place, is a more complete woman. The podcast is continuing but s h …

Karla Gilbert is still one of Australia’s most loved sporting icons, still considered the Queen of Surf Lifesaving even post retirement. She dominated the beach and waves during a professional sports career that saw her win the first ever professional Ironwoman race in 1990 at only 15 years age, against much older and more experienced competition. She went on to …

My little darlings informed me recently that I was ‘middle-aged’. While my brain screamed “WTF?” my mouth worded: “Excuse me?” Apparently the topic had been discussed in Miss 12’s Year 7 health ed class and at 45, I slotted into the bracket of middle age. The look on my face soon had my Mr 10 clarifying that actually, “Dad is …

Before I became a mother – back when I was just me – I felt I had an incredibly successful life. Certainly by all standard measures of success, it was. I had an incredible career that I valued above almost all else. I earned great money. I had (and still have) a great husband. We had (and now have a bigger) house in …

I was scrolling on Medium recently, and choosing the categories I wanted to subscribe to. I scrolled, and scrolled, from one category to the next and very quickly noticed something: most of the contributors in the categories I was interested in were male. I scrolled more, went back to some other categories, paying more attention, and this question popped into …

The concept of the masculine and feminine energy balance was almost too woo-woo for me the first time I came across it but after you listen to this interview, you’ll see why and how it helps you in life and business if you pay attention to it. Explained in terms of yin and yang though, in terms of balance, it …

If life as a working mother had a trinity, it would be: balance, time and guilt. We want one, need the next, and the last gets in the way of both. These three elements seem to endlessly loop around each other – we want to unravel the knot, yet somehow keep tying ourselves up in it. Work-life balance is …

It’s been around a decade since I started looking for natural products and trying to eliminate as many chemicals from our home as I could. To begin with, it was about protecting the kids (isn’t that always the first motivation for women to make changes?) Later though, it became about my health as well – reducing risk factors that contribute …